S8 EP5: Melanie C on Spiceworld, comparing muscles with Arnold Schwarzenegger and why she’ll always be a Spice Girl

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The Say You'll Be There Video and Geri's Departure

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Louis brings up the account in Melanie C's book of a creative flashpoint during the Say You'll Be There video shoot in the Mojave Desert — a row about which band member had been given more screen time by the director. Melanie C laughs at it now: the final cut is 'very equal', she says, but the first edit favoured one member who the director 'had taken a shine to'. That dispute, she confirms, was one thread in the fabric of tensions that led to Geri's eventual departure. She leaves the full details to the book, but acknowledges that with five big personalities, 'there's going to be clashes.'